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[SOLVED] Catalyst 9.2 monitor resolution problems

I have been using Catalyst 9.1 with hd 4670 graphic card before i upgradet to 9.2.

Installation went well, and after restarting X everything looked like before. Next i wanted to test the video playback with metacity compositing enabled (its disabled by default so i had to enable it through gconf-editor). While resizing mplayer window my machine crashed. I had to hardreset bcos no keystrokes were accepted and the screen was just black.

After reboot the first unexpected behavoir was that gdm starts up with 1600x1200 resolution. Before it was 1280x1024. After doing some kind of research (web & logs) i discovered, that fglrx is using the supported edid modes. If i try to apply custom modelines in my xorg.conf it just fails by being ignored by fglrx.

As you can see in the last lines fglrx is using my monitor section from xorg.conf to DFP1. But DFP1 is not connected. The only connected monitor is on crt2. How can i force fglrx to use monitor section ("Sony") with crt2? Below is my xorg.conf.

I really dont know whats wrong. Before the crash everything worked like expected. Is it possible that this crash damaged my hardware? If you need further information dont bother to ask.

Before i forget. When i open amd control Center it take about 15 seconds to open. While loading the programm my monitor is flickering a bunch of times. I found out, that every flickering produces output in my xorg log files.

It keeps detecting my monitor as 1600x1200 when it is in fact 1920x1200. Can't change this in xorg or xrandr, even set up a monitor section for CRT1 (it did nothing). I hope that I can get 9.1 to work.

I am really really sick of these horrible fglrx releases. I've spent hours getting fglrx to work; I'm never buying from them again.

Also, CCC takes forever to start and the screen keeps flashing while it's opening. When starting X the screen repeatedly flashes for about 10 seconds before showing anything.

I don't use normal distros, graphical logon or know how you are doing install/uninstall, so this method may not work for you or bugger things up even worse!.

What I do is uninstall by running the script in /usr/share/ati/ after you have done that rm -r /etc/ati
then reinstall and run aticonfig --initial.

If you have a working /etc/xorg.conf you want to use you could back that up first and reinstate rather than aticonfig initial.

I haven't used fglrx much lately, but did notice that since 8-12 it stopped using the resolution I specified in xorg.conf, instead prefering the last used from it's database in /etc/ati. Probably not an issue unless like me you like to use different startx scripts to start with different res/window managers depending on what you want to do.

I did manage to confuse it into submission by starting with an xorg.conf that had a custom modeline. It didn't start with it, but it became available in amdcccle and I could switch to it, which I did. Quitting X and restarting with with a config without that modeline meant it actually respected the res I asked for. I didn't test for long (I haven't even used 9.2) but it seemed that the new res didn't then get saved as the last res used, so I could start with various configs and it worked like it used to.

Because i am in a hurry i have no time to do more research until tomorrow so i just copied the old file in the new directory and it worked like in previous versions. So the answer is probably in the posted diff.

I realized that I have spent weeks trying get ATI graphics cards to work for me (I had a laptop with one as well). I'm sick and tired and quite frankly, it's not worth my time. I ordered a Nvidia card yesterday. They seem to be somewhat on top of things anyways, like video acceleration etc.

I hope the open source drivers catch up and get into a position where they support features like Video acceleration, 3D acceleration etc. Not until I see that it's working well with those drivers will I look at ATI again.